Ha Jaeyoun

Ha Jaeyoun began her career in 2002 when she received the award for best new poet from the journal Literature and Society. She received a PhD in Modern Korean Literature from Korea University for her research in 1930’s Korean poetry. She also received the 3rd Yeongnam-ilbo Ku Sang Literature prize. She is the author of the poetry collections Radio Days (Moonji, 2006), Like all the Beaches in the World (Moonji, 2012) and Universal Hello (Moonji, 2019), the academic books Adventures of Modern Poetry and Moving Chosun Language (Somyeong Press, 2012), The Imagination of Literature and the Action of Poetry (Bogosa, 2022) and Infinite Love of Paradox (Bogosa, 2022), and the essay collection To the Darkened Lights by the Coming of Me (Moonji, 2023). English translations of her poems have appeared in Poems of Hwang Yuwon, Ha Jaeyoun, & Seo Dae-kyung (edited & introduced by Jake Levine, Vagabond Press, 2020), and the poetry collection Radion days was published in English in Sue Hyon Bae’s translation (Black Ocean, 2023).